Sessions

More Than What Meets the Eye: Vision and Language

3D vision has huge potential for language education. The presenters will demonstrate several prototypical applications through stereoscopic devices: (1) text glossing in a 3D space behind the main text, (2) presentation of text in two languages to each of the reader’s eyes simultaneously, exploiting the phenomenon of Binocular Rivalry (BR), and (3) scrambling (words with character inversions/permutations). The audience can experience all 3 phenomena in this workshop and discuss their potential for language education.

Our Visual Systems and Language Education

Stereopsis, the process by which we attain 3D vision, is discussed in relation to its use in language education. The presenters will discuss their independent but closely related research into vision and language by introducing some experimental applications of their ideas. In a short final demonstration they will present a text with glosses partially visible in a virtual space behind the text (3D vision) and visible only to one eye (BR) using anaglyph glasses.